Advanced brush controls

…I've referred to Painter's Brush Control palette as…a 747 cockpit due to its eye-glazing complexity.…While it is true that a deep user interface…is a necessary evil of complex apps like Painter…and Photoshop, what if I just want to fly…a Piper Cub rather than a behemoth passenger jet?…X3's new advanced brush controls panel enables users to do just that.…Lets fly.…So first of all, lets go ahead and open up the…brush controls, so we can see them in their 747 glory.…

That is a lot of stuff.…But here's the new take.…If you're in the Brush tool, so you have the…Brush property bar up here, you'll see this icon right here.…This is advanced brush control.…Let's click on it, and look how much more compact this is.…What it's doing is, rather than display every possible control…for a brush, in the case of this one, the Sargent Super Jitter,…it eliminates all of the panels that have no meaning for this particular brush.…And so what you're given are only the panels…that are going to have adjustments that affect this brush.…

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12/16/2013

Get your creative ideas out of your head and onto your canvas. John Derry, one of the original Corel Painter authors, teaches the tools and techniques that will get beginners up and running with Painter X3 and help old hands harness the best new features. Learn the basics of painting on a computer, and learn to set up your system (your Painter preferences, tablet and pen, and your palettes) so it works best for you. Then John shows you how to mix and manage color, wield Painter's brushes with maximum control, work with layers and selections, and integrate with that other digital painting powerhouse, Adobe Photoshop. John also covers perspective-guided strokes and the Universal Jitter control for adding analog-like sensitivity to your artwork. Dive in now and get your creative juices flowing.